First Lady Michelle Obama chats with Seth Meyers of Saturday Night Live at the annual White House Correspondents Association Gala at the Washington Hilton hotel, Washington, DC, on April 30, 2011. UPI/Martin Simon/Pool

Seth Adam Meyers (born December 28, 1973) is an American actor and comedian. He currently serves as head writer for Saturday Night Live and hosts its news parody segment Weekend Update.

Meyers was born in Bedford, New Hampshire, the son of Hillary, a middle school French teacher, and Lawrence Meyers. He attended Manchester High School West in Manchester, New Hampshire. He went on to graduate from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he was a member of the fraternity Phi Gamma Delta. Meyers is the older brother of Josh Meyers who was best known as a cast member of MADtv.

Before SNL, Meyers got his improv comedy start as a member of the Northwestern University improv sketch group Mee-Ow, created by Paul Warshauer and Josh Lazar. He continued his career at ImprovOlympic with the group Preponderate as well as overseas as a cast member of Boom Chicago, an English language improv troupe based in Amsterdam, where his brother was also a cast member.

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